Dust-mop cleaner



Jan. 18 1927;v

A. RADO ET AL DUST MOP CLEANER Filed March 5. 1925 Ill Patented Jan. 18,1927.

UNITED STATES ADOLPH RADO AND ADELAIDE D. W. RADO, OF EAST ORANGE, NEWJERSEY.

DUST-HOP CLEANER.

Application and nuns, 1925. Serial m. 13,233.

Our invention relates to a device by means of-which dust mops may becleaned 1n such manner that the operation may be conducted in the houseand without scattering the dust and lint. It is common practlce toremove the dust and lint from floors by meansof dust mops and to applyoil to floors wlth mops of this character; and when the mop hascollected dust and lint from the floor it has been common to shake orbeat the mop out of a window, if not indoors, to remove the dust andlint. This cleaning operation distributes the dust and hut in the air;and

in apartment houses it is particularly annoying as the dust and lint isapt to be blown into the open window of an adjacent apartment. Inmostcases it is necessary for the user to go from one part of the house toanother in order shake the dust and 'lint from the mop at a convenientplace. Our invention consists of a container or pail into which the headof the mop may be inserted and turned and within the pall there is adevice on which the mop head may strike for the purpose of dislodgingthe dust and lint therefrom. The pad is adapted to be closed while themop head is inserted in it, except for the opening through which thehandleof the mop projects, so that the dust and lmt which is removedfrom the mop is held within the pail or receptacle. The present deviceis adapted to be readily carried from one part of the house to another,to wherever the dusting operation is to be carried on, so that inaddition to the sanitary advantage of removing thedust and lint withoutscattering it, the device is adapted to save time. Further details ofthe construction and operation will be set forth in the followingdetailed description.

In the drawing forming part of this. application,

Figure 1 is an elevation of our device, showing the same in use, aportion of the pail or container being broken away to. show theinterior,

Figure 2 is a plan view of the device with the mop removed, in whichview a portion of the cover is broken away, and

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2, and

Fig. 4 is a detail view of a modified form of the bottom of cage 11.

In the drawing we have shown a receptacle 1 which is preferablycylindrical and which is preferably made in the form of a pail. Infact", this member may be made of metal or other material and by makingit detachable from the other parts of the clean ing device the pail maybe used for scrub- .bing purposes when not being used for a mop cleaner,in order that the same pail may beused for various household purposes.There is no particular requirement regardmg the' construction of thlspail. We have shown a cover for the pail which is preferably detachabletherefrom although it will be apparent that the same may be integrallyattached to the pail if desired. The form of cover shown herein includesa top member 2 of annular shape, which rests on the top edge of theplail, and there is 9. depending flagge 3 whic fits down over the top ofthe pal and 5 connected with the stationary portion of the cover bymeans ofthe hinges 6 and these hinged covers preferably extend to thecentral line of the pail where their edges lie close to other when thehinged members are in close position. Thehinged members 4, 5 are eacprovided with a semi-circular opening 7' and when the cover is in closedposition these form a central circular 0 nmg slightly larger than thediameter 0 the handle of an ordinary floor dust mop, such as the handle8 shown in Figure 1. We have shown stop members 9 on eachhinged coversection which rest upon the stationary member 2 of the cover to supportthe hinged section in the dotted line positions shown in Figure 1, whenthe cover is open. The straps from which these stop members are madeproject partially across the members 4, 5 and are coiled to form handleslO by which the cover members may be raised.

The cage for the head of the mop is preferably supported from the coverthough it will be obvious that this arrangement may be varied. We haveshown herein a cage 11 which may be made in various forms but which wehave shown herein as constructed of vertical wires 12 arranged incircular order and securedto a downwardly extending flange 13 formed onthe inner edge of the stationary cover member 2. The vertical wires 12are connected by circumferentialwires 14 at intervals so that an open'orre ticulated cage is formed; and the bottom of this cage is composed ofwires 15 crossing each other and connected with the lowerends of thevertical wires 12. The cage is preferably permanently attached to thecover There are hinged cover members 4 device so that when the latter isplaced over the open top end of the pail 1 the cage is suspended withinthe same so that the bot-- tom of the cage is separated some distancefrom the bottom of the pail and the sides of the cage are also spacedfrom the sides of the pail.

In Figure 1 we have indicated an ordinary dry mop such as is commonlyused for dusting floors and it consists of the head 16 which is the partwhich gathers the dust, and the handle 8 by which the mo is manipulated.For convenience we pre er to apply a rubber sleeve 17 which fits snuglyover the mop handle. In using the device the movable cover sections 4, 5are swung open and the head of the mop is inserted into the pail andinto the cage; and then the cover sections are closed down so that thehead of the mop is enclosed within the pail and cage, the mop handleprojecting through the opening 7 in the cover. The operator may placethe 'hands on opposite sides of the sleeve 17 and by moving" the handsbackwardly and forwardly in opposite directions so that the sleeve rollsbetween the hands,

the mop may be rapidly revolved so that the material ofwhich the head 16is composed will strike the various wires'of the cage; and

. but also round the sides. When the mop has been revolvedsuflicientlyto remove the dust and lint from it the mop may be liftedthe place of dusting to a window or some other distant location to cleanthe mop each time it collects dust and lint. With the present device thecleaner is carried from one room to another and used wherever the mop isused and afterwards the cleaner may be emptied by simply removing thecover and the cage and turning the accumulated dust and lint out of thepail. The mop may be cleaned much quicker with the present device thanif the head of the mop were beaten against a wall or other body and withless wear and tear on the mop itself. As the mop is revolved, thetendency is for the material of the head to fly out or open up and atthe same time strike the wires of the cage, and this. action quicklyremoves the dust and lint throughout the head of the mop.

' We have shown in Figure 4: a modified form of bottom construction forthe cage. Herein, the cross'wires 18 are straight, but the wires 19which are arranged at right angles to the wires 18 are bent upwardly at-.20 to form raised loops with which the inside of the head of the mopwill engage. These loops form small obstructions against which the mophead strike to better dislodge the dust and lint from the mop.

Having described our invention, what we claim is: 1. A .mop cleaningdevice comprising a receptacle having an open end, a cover for the openend of the receptacle comprising a stationary member adapted to fit theopen end of the rece tacle, hinged cover sections attached tosaistationary section and having recesses whereby, when said cover sectionsare closed there will be a central aperture in the cover through whichthe mo handle may extend and a cage of reticulated construction attachedto the stationary member of said cover and extending into the receptacleand spaced from the inner Walls thereof for the purpose set forth.

' 2. A mop cleaning device comprising a receptacle having an open end, astationary cover member havin a flange to fit over the open end of saidpaii said cover member being of annular form and having a flange at itsinner edge, a cage formed of Wires. and connected with the inner flangeof said cover member whereby said cage is suspended within and separatedfrom the walls of said pail to receive a mop head therein for thepurpose set forth, hinged cover members connected to said stationarycover member at opposite sides thereof, and meeting along the centralline of said cage and receptacle, said hinged cover members havingrecesses whereby a central aperture is formed when the hinged covermembers are closed, through which the mop handle may extend.

Signed at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,this 22d day or January, 1925.

ADOLPH RADO.

ADELAIDE D. W. RADO.

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